The Hawai'i Kai Neighborhood The sentencing of a Big Island woman who pleaded guilty to abuse of a 10-year-old girl who almost died in her care has been rescheduled for Oct. 29.

Hyacinth Poouahi pleaded guilty in May to first-degree endangering the welfare of a minor, first-degree assault, unlawful imprisonment and first-degree terroristic threatening.

Poouahi faces up to 20 years in prison.

Paramedics found the girl unconscious when they responded to a 911 call at an Ainaloa house in February 2005.

The girl's mother had left her with Poouahi three months earlier.

Police and court documents say the child was found with stab wounds, burn marks that appeared to be caused by cigarettes, and a maggot-infested wound on her head.

— Associated Press